HMS Tonnant

HMS Tonnant was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy and the Royal Navy. The ship was launched by France on 12 October 1789, and the ship was captured by the British fleet of Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Tonnant became a British ship, fighting at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and Sir Alexander Cochrane used the ship as his flagship during the War of 1812. In 1814, Francis Scott Key was aboard the ship while negotiating with the British, and he wrote The Star Spangled Banner while watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the Royal Navy. The ship was broken up in 1821.